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Friday, June 15, 2012

Report From The Gallery at the US Open

by Randy Roberts

My brother Roz was at the course today and followed Michael all day. Here's his report to me on what it was like:

I have no idea what was on TV but there was a camera filming every shot
of the day. Big crowd following early but as he fell down the
leaderboard the gallery got smaller and it was easier to follow. The
course has some crazy cross-overs between holes so it was sort of hard
to keep up with the group at points.

Michael said that the greens were super hard. You had to land the
ball up to 20 or 30 yards short of the green on some shots to get the
ball to stop on the green. At the end of the day there were a lot of
spike marks that made getting the ball on the line he wanted difficult.
You wouldn't believe how fast these greens are. I don't think TV
does the slopes justice. There were putts that Michael barely touched
that traveled 20+ feet and well past the hole. The double bogey on 18
comes to mind.

Michael played the tough stretch of 1-6 at 1 over par. He had two
bogeys and both were 3 putts. He missed some fairways in this stretch
but I think he hit all of the greens in regulation.

The birdie at
the last was definitely a confidence booster. Michael was very upbeat
after the round and said the course was "ridiculously difficult". He
said it played completely different from day 1. That might be a result
of playing in the afternoon. Don't know if they showed it but his tee
shot on 8 looked like it ended up about 3 feet from the hole. Even
that putt Michael said was difficult because it was down hill side slope
and there were a lot of spike marks in his line. He decided to hit it
firm. He also told his caddie, Mattie Lou that he was going to celebrate if he made
the putt - thus the happy dance at the end of the round. It was funny
because it was out of character for Michael but I think it showed he was
having fun.

If you blinked, you would have missed the celebration, so here's the clip.

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